The story

I got a new game on Steam and got set to downloading it.
For some reason, Steam and Windows have decided that it's better to save some electricity and put my computer to sleep, rather than finish my game.
Today I discovered that instead of playing my game …

The story

I found the script we were using to disable authenticode on our machines, a feature that causes great suffering (and dll-loading-delays) to workstations not connected to the Internet when using various Microsoft products (i.e. SQL Management Studio, SharePoint).
Note the line at the end - the script tries to find …

The Story

If you thought about deploying BitLocker in your enterprise, you probably came across the recovery issue - if you lose the encrypting smart card, corrupt the key file, forget the password or the TPM breaks down - how can you access the data?
For small organizations, manual recovery can be …

The Story

I haven't touched SharePoint in a while, but I've been asked by a friend to help him do something "the right way".
We were looking for a way to add an HTTPS binding to an existing SharePoint 2010 site. Google is full of ways of doing that, but …

Whenever I use Remote Desktop to connect to an NT6+ (Windows Vista /
Windows Server 2008 and later) machine, I use Network Level
Authentication, meaning that authentication with the server is performed
before session is created (contrary to first connecting to the server
and using its GUI to enter the credentials …